Thomas Hunt Morgan Quotes

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

You never get every job you want.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

It was hard every time I found out that I was not in the starting XI.

When you come off the pitch, and you have had some chances but not scored, it is difficult.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to know

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?